By Arun Anand This is 18th part of the series on ‘The Taliban’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationslistview.com. Here is the 18th part- As Taliban got routed within few weeks of the US and its allies’ invasion of …
By Arun Anand This is 17th part of the series on Taliban. You can share your feedback at Contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 17th part- In the aftermath of Al-Qaeda attack in United States on 11 September, 2011(commonly known as ‘9/11’), …
By Arun Anand Taliban has been created and mentored by Pakistan’s spy agency Inter Services Intelligence. We have talked about a clandestine unit ‘Directorate S’ earlier in brief. Here we would try to have a more detailed look at the …
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By Arun Anand This is 15th part of the series on ‘The Taliban Story’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 15th part: Directorate S is a secret unit of the Pakistan’s spy agency ISI. It played …
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By Arun Anand This is 14th part of our series on ‘The Taliban Story’. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 14th part The irony couldn’t have been lost. On the morning of September 11, 2001, when …
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By Arun Anand This is the 13th part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban Story’ that we bring to our readers. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 13th part: Pakistan’s Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) had …
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By Arun Anand This is the 12th part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban Story’ that we bring to our readers. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 12th part: Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef was born …
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By Arun Anand- This is the 11th part of the 30-part series on ‘The Taliban Story’ that we bring to our readers. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 11th part: Ahmed Shah Massoud, the legendary military …
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By Arun Anand- This is the 10th part of the ‘Taliban Story’, a 30-part series that we bring to our readers. The feedback can be shared at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the 10th part- The Taliban’s insurgency in Afghanistan after 2001 …
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By Arun Anand- This is the ninth part of the 30-part series that brings to our readers ‘The Taliban Story’. The readers can share their feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the ninth part Opium production and smuggling of narcotics especially …
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By Arun Anand The three pillars on which Taliban’s functioning rests are morality, commerce and war. To understand more about these three pillars or functions one needs to understand the way Taliban exercises power that it usurps illegitimately from institutions …
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By Arun Anand- This is seventh part of ‘The Taliban Story’. It is a 30 part series on Taliban that we bring to our readers. You can share your feedback at contact@thenationalistview.com. Here is the seventh part- In 1990s after …
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